Aishbagh police have nabbed an accused who had fled from district court on September 6 after he was sentenced 25 years of imprisonment.
The accused Mehboob Ali was an accused in a sexual assault case and was released on bail. However, on the final hearing on Saturday, as soon as he was sentenced in the rape case, he fled away from the court. The Aisbagh police registered a case under section 366, 294, 506, 376,376 D and 34 of the IPC and after the accused went absconding MP Nagar police registered a case under section 224 of the IPC.
The accused is a habitual criminal and has served three years of jail for burglary.
SHO MP Nagar Upendra Singh Bhati said that the accused was released on bail after from High Court and used to appear at the time of hearing for the past one year. On the day of absconding when the quantum of sentence was delivered accused escaped the court before he could be taken into custody to send under judicial custody. In the final hearing accused was pronounced guilty and sentence serving jail for sexual assault.
Interestingly accused was released on bail in earlier case of rape in which he was charged by sexual assault by a girl he was in relationship with and during the bail he was accused of sexual assault and went absconding after he sentenced to be serve jail for five and twenty years, he added.
After the accused was arrested police recovered sharp edged weapons from his possession and a case under sections 25 and 27 of the IPC was registered against the accused.